That robot that aced TPC Scottsdale's 16th hole is now available to the public

We’ve heard tour players being described as robotic, but now a robot has been fashioned to play like a PGA Tour player. It’s even got a nickname that echoes the given name of the long-time No. 1 player in the world. LDRIC the robot, the machine that drew headlines and nearly 27 million YouTube views a couple weeks back when it made a hole-in-one at the 16th hole during the pro-am for the Waste Management Phoenix Open, is now available for hire. The letters stand for Launch Directional Robot Intelligent Circuitry, which is a convoluted but catchy way of describing a mobile robot that can communicate and execute shots in three different sports. RELATED: Watch robot make hole-in-one at TPC Scottsdale's 16th hole LDRIC grew from the minds behind Golf Laboratories and its partner Dynes Unlimited. Golf Laboratories is the robot-testing service that has been the industry standard...